Disinfecting compound.



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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J an. 30, 1906.

Application filed April 21, 1905. Serial 1%. 256,818.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that .I MATHEW J. Mannca citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful 1m provements in DisinfectingCompounds, of which the following is a specification.

' My invention relates to a new compound which may be employed as a fumigator for disinfecting purposes or for destroying verinin---such, for instance, as bedbugs, flies,mosquitos, roaches, lice, &c.-found inbuildings or on cattle or fowls.

Said compound comprises the following ingredients: potassium chlorate, two ounces; sulfur, two ounces; strontium nitrate, six ounces; shellac, oneounce; potassium nitrate, one ounce; sawdust, fifteen ounces.

The ingredients are pulverized, mixed, and kneaded to the consistency of paste, then placed in pasteboard tubes and permitted to dry and harden preparatory to use.

The dried compound has the property of being easily lighted and is used in the following manner: One of the tubes containing the compound is placed in the apartment infested with the vermin orto be disinfected and is ignited. The compound burns freely and discharges gases which soon kill the vermin or germs.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. Adisinfecting compound comprising potassium chlorate, sulfur, strontium nitrate, shellac, potassium nitrate and sawdust.

2. A disinfecting compound comprising potassium chlorate two ounces, sulfur two ounces, strontium nitrate six ounces, shellac one ounce, potassium nitrate one ounce, sawdust fifteen ounces, kneaded into a paste and permitted to dry in pasteboard tubes.

In testimony whereof I afix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

MATHEW J. MANIX.

Witnesses:

J. W. BoLINo, F. G. FISCHER. 

